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tomc1985

Are there any other sync services that can handle large git repos without choking?

It's been a few years since I last checked but when I did Dropbox was the only one that didn't choke

Honestly just use GitHub. My (high level) understanding of sync is file system issues file event for every file change, we receive it, determine if its relevant, and then make the appropriate delta. You can imagine with thousands (or millions) of small files this becomes nearly impossible to manage with an OS integrated sync engine.

Indeed, and I do/did, but I was in an environment where I would switch quickly between a laptop and a desktop, and Dropbox sync worked extremely well for quickly switching between the same codebase on multiple computers, even with our large, half-a-decade git repo

You can put the .git directory outside the working directory. Might be helpful. Sync the working dir with a sync service, but the .git dir with... git.

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